Ecstatic Dance Nottingham

Join us every Sunday this summer for cacao, dance, nature, community and magick!!!!

Ecstatic Dance is a dance/movement practice exploring the exhilarating feeling of moving your body freely. You are invited to move, play, connect, sweat, stretch, sound, unwind, renew, release, improvise and transform.

Silent Disco

As the event is outside you will be given headphones on entrance. Headphone sound immersions help us go deeper into the music and ourselves. The headphones are radio wave transmitted (instead of bluetooth) and are very safe for our precious brains. Silent Discos have become very popular for outdoor ecstatic dance events due to internal headphone music making us feel contained while being in the open outdoors.

We only have 30 headsets so please be sure to buy your tickets in advance to save your place.

SUNDAY Format

14:45 Arrive

15:00 Opening Circle and Cacao Sharing

15:30 Ecstatic Dance

17:15 Meditation and Closing Circle

17:30 Finish

(After Picnic Gathering and Sharing Circle)

Venue (THE LAND)

The Iona School has a beautiful big private magical garden which they call THE LAND. This space has many areas for us to dance together and separately. There are many different magical hiding places for you to dance with the trees and the birds and a beautiful outdoor theatre for us to dance together as a tribe. I feel the combination of our dance and this land will be extremely transformative and special.

There is free parking in the venue car parks and in the surrounding streets. I would advise you to drive up to the top of the hill in the school drive and park at the top carpark where you will see Ecstatic Dance team members waving at you :-)

Address: The Iona School (The Land), 310 Sneinton Dale, Nottingham NG3 7DN

What is Ecstatic Dance?

Ecstatic Dance is a dance/movement practice exploring the exhilarating feeling of moving your body freely. You are invited to move, play, connect, sweat, stretch, sound, unwind, renew, release, improvise and transform.

“Our intention for these Ecstatic Dance classes is self-exploration, connection, fun, healing, expanding human potential and community building through freestyle ecstatic dance." - Seth Newman (Ecstatic Dance London)

ED has organically grown into a space of movement and music exploration inspired by sources such as; Gabrielle Roth (5 rhythms), ritual dance, trance dance and contact improvisation. These influences have evolved Ecstatic Dance into a movement journey of the mind, body and soul. The music will take the dancer on a movement journey through a diverse mixture of rhythms and genres depending on the DJ and circle leader. There is no teacher, but there is a circle leader to provide containment and guidance.

‘No Steps, No Pressure, Just Dance’

Guidelines

1. No talking in the dance space

2. No shoes. Ecstatic Dance is a barefoot dance practice helping us to ground and connect to the earth

3. No drugs/alcohol.

4. Phone-free zone

5. Respect for each other's personal space

What to bring

- Comfy clothes for movement and expression, changing facilities are NOT provided (layers)

- Water Bottle

- Bring a snack or lunch for the post picnic gathering and sharing circle

Prices

Early Bird: £15

Early Bird (Cacao): £18

General: £20

General (Cacao): £23

Refunds

Refunds are currently not available. You are welcome to change your ticket to a different date or give your ticket to a friend. Please email Victoria Jane [email protected] to inform us about any changes or queries you may have.

'Let's Dance'

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Facilitator Victoria Jane & DjVJ

Victoria Jane has been passionate about dance since early childhood, dancing through ballet school and performing arts college to accomplishing a BA Hons in Contemporary Dance at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance. After her studies, Victoria found interest in the healing arts, yogic movement and philosophy. Victoria first found her passion for free flow movement through '5 Rhythms' workshops in Melbourne Australia and then ventured back to Europe where she facilitated Ecstatic Dance in The Netherlands with the Ecstatic Dance team in The Hague. Victoria has an MA Degree in Myth, Cosmology and the Sacred, where she majored in Jungian thought, Spiritual Channeling and Ekstasis Dance, exploring her concept 'Being or Pretending to Be', into the question, 'Are you Dancing or Pretending to Dance?'

Victoria hopes her experience and knowledge bring ease-fulness, depth and inspiration to the ecstatic dancers' inner journey and expression.

DJvJ (Victoria Jane) is self taught World Fusion DJ and has recently been professionally trained by the 'Dance is Medicine' Ecstatic DJ School. DJvJ's music set style is an explorational journey through tribal percussion, classical piano, folk, African house, Indian sitar, tantric beats, latin salsa with a dash of 90s house and maybe even a cheeky pop song now and again. As Victoria was a dancer before she was a DJ she has an ear for what will make you DANCE DANCE DANCE.

If you have any questions or queries for Victoria please contact: [email protected]

Host or Publisher Victoria Jane 'Light House Frequency'